That is amazing.
Frankly, I\'m fascinated by this. There\'s a part of me that wants to think it\'s a put-on. I have a hard time believing that the only person who knows anything about the existence of something this unusual is a fanboi with an Angelfire website. There are no other references to it online except the Wikipedia article that uses Ryan\'s original page as its source, and faking 8-bit game screens is apparently something of an art form. Having said that, if it\'s a fake it\'s a pretty impressive one.
He does say that people should contact him if they want a copy of the ROM. It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone actually asked for it. God knows it\'s easy enough to latch onto a C64 emulator.
It's 100% fake. I'd know because, well...I'm the one who faked it.You should also link to it from the main page, as Internet Archive surprisingly doesn't have any saved copies of it despite the page being over six-and-a-half years old.
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I'll edit the page to reflect the ROM's fictional nature.
Impressive, snake. Merry internet Christmas to you, and to all a good trolling.It\'s 100% fake. I\'d know because, well...I\'m the one who faked it.
Reading Matt\'s post, it did look like some of the graphics were a little too crisp to be from a 25-year-old game (the title screen mainly). I, too, started thinking that it would\'ve been odd for this game to fly under the radar for so long. So yes, well played...you definitely got me! :-)
If you\'re willing to go down the rabbit hole a little bit (chiefly, to the Wikia article that references this, but you have to dig a little deeper than that), there\'s some stuff in there that you may find terribly amusing, or frightening, depending. :)
It\'s 100% fake. I\'d know because, well...I\'m the one who faked it.
I tip my hat to you, sir.
If you\'re willing to go down the rabbit hole a little bit (chiefly, to the Wikia article that references this, but you have to dig a little deeper than that), there\'s some stuff in there that you may find terribly amusing, or frightening, depending. :)
For those of us who may not know exactly how or where to dig, what are we looking for exactly?
http://gameshows.wikia.com/wiki/Mindreaders
You have been warned, sir. Don\'t expect good writing. Expect lots of cruft. Lots and lots of cruft.
(that should fix it. Oops.)
Travis botched the link pretty good, but I\'m not gonna worry overmuch about being discreet at this point: The section reporting Allstar\'s hoax as fact, according to the history, was added by someone with the handle of \"Gameshowsareforever.\" Looking at his Talk page gets you to this discussion, which pegs the WTF meter on its own merits but includes some true gems and blasts from the past at the end, including (but certainly not limited to!) your recommended daily allowance of self-important Benefiber.
Oh my gravy. I never have to watch another sitcom again; I can just go to the talk page of a (un-self aware) user who dabbles (that\'s a really kind word, because I know there are some people on here who dislike it when I\'m unkind, and I don\'t need the grief) in very specialist subjects.
You could not possibly script better comedy
Thank you guys for your kind words; I had a blast making that page! :)
Is Gameshowsareforever also known as JonSea31? Because it sounds like him only much more angry about his autism not being used as a defense.
There was a user on the GSN boards named patnvanna83...these remind me of him. He had a pretty lousy temper that eventually got him banned.
My head hurt reading that \"discussion\". Didn\'t JonSea try to pull the autism card here?
My head hurt reading that \"discussion\". Didn\'t JonSea try to pull the autism card here?
Oh lord yes.